The Steel Guitar Forum

Go with a D-8 and use what ever string combination you want. I learned my slidy stuff on a dobro oh so many years ago. So, now I occasionally play in a western swing band with a '60 Stringmaster D-8. I use 6 strings on the nearest neck that's tuned to G and 7 strings on the other neck that's tuned t...

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Thom Barkes

Now that I'm playing my Stringmaster D8 pretty regularly, I sure would like to find an 8 string dobro. I've only seen a couple of them live over the years and really do love that western swing sound on the dobro! There must be somebody out there with one they're not using any more!